[pkg-db-devel] Bug#622916: Bug#622916: Bug#621383: Bug#622916: libdb4.7-dev: please reinstate -ldb support

[Ondřej Surý]

> OK, I'm convinced. Let's go for libdb-dev then.

Cool, thanks.

> I'm happy to hand this responsibility to the libdb maintainers.

I'll do my best.

> FWIW, I inherited the versioned libdb-dev dependencies and have never
> discussed them with the previous perl maintainers. The DB transitions
> we've done so far have been very rare, but I'm aware we've been lagging
> behind.
>
> I suspect the versioned dependencies go back to
>
> perl (5.8.0-7) unstable; urgency=low
>
>  [...]
>  * NOTE: DB_File now uses libdb4.0 (previously libdb2).  Any DB_File
>    databases created with earlier perl packages will need to be
>    upgraded before being used with the current module with the
>    db4.0_upgrade program (in the libdb4.0-util package, with HTML docs
>    in db4.0-doc).
>  [...]
>
>  -- Brendan O'Dea <bod at debian.org>  Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:05:42 +1100

Well, db2 -> db4.x was a big leap (skipping db3).

> I hope such incompatibilities will not happen in the future :)

Well, they could happen in the future, but it seems that the database
format is quite stable for some time (years) now.

If such change will happen, I will (in case I am still Berkeley DB
maintainer) coordinate the transition (probably uploading to
experimental, etc...)

> I'll try and get the change uploaded by the weekend (but Dominic, feel
> free to pick this up if you like.)

Again thank you very much :)

> Thanks Ondřej,

No problem, happy to help, it will make the Berkeley DB maintenance
(e.g. my work) less painful.

Now I have to convince python maintainer (doko) and I am almost done :).

O.
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>